14 Facts About Amplify Dot

Amplify Dot is best-known for presenting on BBC Radio 1Xtra from 2014 to 2020 and co-presenting the BBC One show Sounds Like Friday Night alongside Greg James from 2017 to 2018.

Amplify Dot is the narrator for rapper 2 Chainz's television show The Most Expensivest.

In 2001, at the age of thirteen, Amplify Dot performed a freestyle at a Missy Elliott concert at the Brixton Academy after Elliott asked if anyone in the audience could rap.

Amplify Dot describes this as a defining moment that led her to pursue a career as a professional artist.

Amplify Dot gradually built a reputation in the UK grime and hip hop scenes, featuring on the grime track "Game Over Female Takeover", and self-releasing the mixtape Born Ready and the EP Short Back and Sides, which entered the iTunes Hip Hop Chart.

In June 2012, Amplify Dot signed a recording contract with Virgin Records and a publishing contract with Sony ATV, with Music Week reporting that she was the first female rapper in the UK to secure a major-label deal in over a decade.

Amplify Dot has collaborated with artists and producers including Busta Rhymes, Emeli Sande, Zane Lowe, Krunchie, Show N Prove, Chris Loco, Fraser T Smith, Midi Mafia, Beatfreakz, Kano, Gyptian, and Ms Dynamite.

Amplify Dot has performed with Lioness and Lady Leshurr as part of the all-female crew 367, including on a remix of the Ms Dynamite single "Neva Soft".

Amplify Dot's co-host is her producer Robby and they record the show from their respective homes, in Kingston upon Thames and Brixton to ensure they are socially distant.

Amplify Dot then goes back to grime clashing roots by meeting Lord of the Mics co-founders Ratty and Jammer at Jammer's childhood family home.

Amplify Dot interviewed Logan Sama, DJ Target, NoLay, Sian Anderson, Wiley, AJ Tracey, Jammz, Ghetts, President T, Sir Spyro, Chantelle Fiddy and GRM Daily founder Posty, to get their advice and opinions on what she's trying to do, plus get some of them involved.

Amplify Dot goes to meet rapper Devilman in Birmingham, but he doesn't turn up.

Amplify Dot wrote her debut book Outraged: Why Everyone is Shouting and No-One is Talking.

Amplify Dot is an avid supporter of Manchester United FC.